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The International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders
is a non-profit, non-government organization for the sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency and the promotion of optimal iodine nutrition worldwide.

 
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World's healthiest food

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NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof asks "What’s the most scrumptious, wholesome, exquisite, healthful, gratifying food in the world?" and answers that it's food fortified with vital micronutrients.  He highlights folic acid-fortified flour and iodized salt:

"Equally important (to folic acid) is another micronutrient, iodine. The worst consequence of iodine deficiency isn’t goiters, but malformation of fetuses’ brains, so they have 10 to 15 points permanently shaved off their I.Q.’s."

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